This selection of Awareness Through Movement® lessons are designed to prepare you for the 5 Winds Kata Series. Embodying all the principles of Judo, the 5 Winds Kata was deconstructed by Moshe Feldenkrais to make this traditional form accessible to an audience wider than one interested in martial arts. The 5 Winds Kata Series is a choreographed pattern of movements practiced either solo or in pairs which emphasizes the form and order of a process. A “Wind” is an invisible force of tradition which furnishes momentum to any art that incorporates it. Just as a leaf is propelled along by an invisible wind, so does a tradition whose influence is palpable but unseen, propel one along a path like Judo or the Feldenkrais Method®.

Since the passing of Dennis Leri, I don’t know if or when the 5 Winds Kata will be published. I will keep you posted. – Al Wadleigh, GCFP.